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voitto edited this page Sep 5, 2011 · 7 revisions

FollowButton wiki

Users will own and control the data they publish without compromising social reach.

Privacy can be customized to the user’s desire. FollowButton will contain a button the user can drag to her browser’s bookmarks bar for easily following any page on the internet that can be followed (blogs, information feeds, government agencies, news media, hospitals, etc.).

Publishing to FollowButton will seamlessly cross-post to other networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

FollowButton is open source software, so the community can participate in its progress forward.

FollowButton users will have two options very similar to WordPress: A version that is simply logged in to like Facebook and hosted by FollowButton (similar to WordPress.com) or a self-hosted version (similar to WordPress.org).

data will be held with a very loosely binding terms of service

users will be encouraged to sign up for cheap, easy to use hosting through affiliate services

The user logs in to FollowButton

He is prompted to connect accounts to existing social networks

he begins to see a news feed of his friends and followees

option of adding the bookmarklet to his browser toolbar (i.e., the FollowButton) the user can easily start following any source on the internet.

He sees a news feed of those he’s following as well as his own activity from around the web

He will have a settings tab for

  •   managing his account
    
  •   changing his privacy settings (which will have strict default settings), 
    
  •   managing those he follows, 
    
  •   changing the appearance of his page, and 
    
  •   logging out.
    

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